chubby bunny not so funny

Sorry, had to. From the CBC.

Have you heard of the popular new pastime for folks whose day-to-day lives just don’t contain enough challenge and excitement for their supercharged adrenal glands? No, not reality television. Chubby bunny contests. This highly competitive sporting event requires participants to stuff their faces with as many large marshmallows as they possibly can and still say the words “chubby bunny.”

Well today those bunnies came home to roost.

That's quite a chubby!

A woman is dead after choking during a marshmallow-eating contest at the Western Fair in London, Ont.

The 32-year-old woman died in hospital Wednesday, a day after collapsing offstage during a Chubby Bunny competition.

The contest features people stuffing one marshmallow at a time into their mouth then saying “chubby bunny” until they can’t say it anymore. The person who gags, chokes or spits out the marshmallows loses.

Emergency crews who arrived on the scene tried to help the unconscious woman but couldn’t remove the blockage in her throat. She was revived at the hospital, but later died.

The fair has since cancelled the eating contest.

Harry Potter, terrorist

Potter. Harry Potter.It seems that in the latest development in TWAT and The War Against Liquids, the forces that be have turned their beady little eyes to the tiny terrorist known as Harry Potter.

American airport staff almost stopped Harry Potter author JK Rowling boarding a flight because she would not part with the manuscript for the final book.

Rowling was not prepared to stow her top secret notes for book number seven in her check-in baggage when she flew back from a book festival in August.

Eventually she was allowed to take them on the flight, bound in elastic bands.

Seriously, doen't he look pretty sketchy to you?Indeed, if that manuscript fell into the hands of terrorists, what havoc could they create? Unimaginable, worldwide suffering would invariably follow the manuscript-napping.

But seriously, what was she going to do? Use it to threaten the pilot? “Turn this plane around NOW and land in Havana or Hermione gets written out!

shiver me timbers, it’s the worst pirate video ever!

What makes it so bad? It’s not just that they’re gay pirates. It’s that they’re gay, crudely-made, gospel-spouting, whiteboy-rappin’, lame-dancin’ pirates.

From Ooblog, via Fark.

It’s got everything: crappy music, worse dancing, puppets, pirates, Christian rap. Words cannot describe it.

Update, Sep. 12, 2006: Favorite comment: “Can’t sleep, the puppets will eat me. “

you call that a bonus???

Babies and Children, buy one, get one free

One is reminded of the Okanagan winery of which Metro and Mistress Cowfish often speak, which has posted a sign reading, “all unaccompanied children will be given a free cappuccino and their own marmot.”

cheap designer shoes

 Stephon Marbury

Don’t let the kids fool you; they are more addicted to shoes than Carrie Bradshaw ever was. When I was little it was Adidas. Pumas were for sorry-ass kids who couldn’t get Adidas and had to wear bowl haircuts because their mothers couldn’t do a David Cassidy/Dorothy Hamill. And if your navy-and-white Adidas shoes matched your navy-and-white Adidas shorts that matched your navy-and-white Adidas satin bomber jacket (Joanie STILL loves Chachi, people!) that matched your white-and-navy Adidas baseball tee, you were totally happening, man.

Adidas. What did you think they were? Ain't you seen Adidas before you sorry-ass Pumaboy!Now the shoes cost more than I earn in a week and Stella McCartney is designing for them. Somebody should do something.

Somebody has.

from Popbitch:

>> Good sport <<
       Will the Starbury change the world?

 Kids only want to buy trainers if they are super-expensive and exclusive, and top sportsmen can’t be blamed for endorsing top-priced goods. Well, this conventional wisdom is being turned on its head by New York Knicks’ Stephon Marbury.

Kobe, Lebron and Michael Jordan have all put their name to $150 Nike shoes, but Marbury has made it his mission to bring out a line of shoes for poor kids. The cost of the new Starbury shoe? $15. And it’s not just a piece of tat. Marbury is wearing the shoe on court himself. 

Sold only in US discount store Steve & Barry’s (which prides itself on enabling a family to be clothed for a year for $100) the shoe has become a word-of-mouth phenomenon. Queues run outside the stores, with a two-item per person limit now enforced on the Starbury range. Marbury‘s aim is to show people just how little it really costs to make high quality sneakers.

“Two hundred to buy a pair of sneakers? That’s groceries for the week,” he says. “History is going to say Stephon Marbury changed the game.”

More:
http://www.starbury.com